Research Students & Projects
This section lists our current research students and their ongoing projects.
Community Oral Health Research Students
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Budur Almutairi PhD title: Developing and evaluating a Toothbrushing Programme in Saudi Arabia (TOPS) – through a cluster randomized controlled trial in kindergartens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Supervisors: Prof David Conway, Dr Alex McMahon, Dr Marie Murphy.
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Nicholas Beacher PhD title: Associations between The Oral Microbiome and Head and Neck Cancer: An update on a Scoping Review and HEADSpAcE
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Kyle Cousins PhD title: Childhood Caries: understanding the role of early life behaviours and social determinants on risk and inequalities: A novel data linkage cohort study. Funded by the Borrow Foundation in collaboration with ScotCen. Supervisors: Prof Andrea Sherriff, Prof David Conway. |
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Ahmed Mahmoud |
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Frances O'Leary
PhD title: Dental caries and multiple long-term conditions in children and adolescents across Scotland; the trends, inequalities, and the reach and impact of Childsmile. Supervisors: Prof Andrea Sherriff, Prof David Conway, Dr Barbara Nicholl. |
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Andrew Patterson PhD title: Interpretations of International Healthcare Volunteering. Supervisors: Professor Al Dowie.
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Frances Warner PhD title: Investigating socioeconomic inequalities in participation and outcomes in the ENHANCE-D Randomised Controlled Trial. Supervisors: Prof David Conway, Prof Andrea Sherriff |
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| Yulia Anopa PhD Title: Economics of paediatric caries prevention in pre-school children Supervisors: Prof Emma McIntosh, Prof Lorna Macpherson email: yulia.anopa@glasgow.ac.uk |
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| Andres Celis PhD Title: Evaluation of Sembrando Sonrisas – the national child oral health improvement programme in Chile. Supervisors: Dr Alex McMahon, Prof David Conway, Prof Lorna Macpherson, |
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| Grant Creaney PhD Title: Healthcare Systems Factors in Late Stage Diagnosis of Head and Neck Cancer in Europe and South America Supervisors: Dr Alastair Ross, Prof David Conway email: g.creaney.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
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| Jamie Dickie PhD title: Can longitudinal assessment on its own, or with other measures, assess competency in undergraduate dentists? Supervisors: Dr Kurt Naudi, Dr Andrea Sherriff, Dr Michael McEwan email: Jamie.Dickie@glasgow.ac.uk |
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| Jenny Eaves PhD title: Optimising delivery of the Childsmile nursery toothbrushing programme Supervisors: Dr Andrea Sherriff, Dr Wendy Gnich, Dr Al Ross, Professor Lorna Macpherson email: j.eaves.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
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| Emma Fletcher PhD Title: Optimising family toothbrushing behaviours in the home in early years in Scotland: developing and evaluating a community based intervention Supervisors: Dr Andrea Sherriff, Dr Alastair Ross, Prof Lorna Macpherson Email: e.fletcher.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
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| Kate Ingarfield PhD title: Inequality in the survival of patients with head and neck cancer Supervisors: Prof David Conway and Dr Alex McMahon. email: k.ingarfield.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
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| Aalia Karamat PhD Title: Social prescribing in primary dental care to address inequalities to improve oral health od preschool children Supervisors: Dr Alastair Ross, Dr Andrea Sherriff, Prof Lorna Macpherson, Prof David Conway Email: 2343744k@student.gla.ac.uk |
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| Ryan Stewart PhD title: Obesity and dental caries in childhood: a common risk factor approach to reducing sugar consumption through the Childsmile programme. Supervisors: Dr Andrea Sherriff, Prof David Conway, Prof Lorna Macpherson, Dr David Young, Dr Louise Kelly email: r.stewart.3@research.gla.ac.uk |
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Oral Sciences Research Students
Current PhD students:
Abdullah Baz – Using simple and complex wound in vitro biofilm models for testing of novel therapeutics
Muhanna Alshehri – Investigating oral bacterial interactions in modulating Candida albicans pathogenicity
Zainab Bilal - Investigating phenotypic changes in chronic wound biofilms in response to antimicrobial treatment using Raman spectroscopy
Lauren Ashcroft – Beyond the oral microbiome: Developing a bioinformatic toolkit for investigating the oral ecosystem and disease development
Laurence Rowan – Bacteriophage in the Canine Oral Microbiome
Suror Shaban - Investigating the Antimicrobial Potential of a Novel Chitosan Polymer in Endodontics
Krystyna Piela - Holding the front line – maintaining barrier integrity in the mouth
Ross Deehan - Investigating the mechanisms and functional consequences of immune subversion of dendritic cell function by P. gingivalis as a mechanism underlying the immune aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis
Nasser Binsaif – Investigating activation of intracellular immune signalling pathways following exposure of epithelial tissue to oral bacteria
Othman Baradwan – With the help of CRISPR-Cas9 complex to knockout genes to identify the ones involved with in vitro senescence in dental pulp stem cells
